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I forwards so properly i disclaimed, There i.q. also another consideration which should induce us to ex pea that the debates on the present occasion will be conduit:led more -wisely and_ more suaessfully than in i7BB. ,Hitherto.our discusSions have not been marked with 'great intempetance-eWith that violation of Parliamentary usage which attended the pro , eedings to which I allude. There ha, not yet appeared any. symptom of suet). a disposition,.and we 'nray e lhersforthope." t nnAcquence,...the.... decision of the two H i uses, of, Per,ltatient may re cnmtnenJ itself'. to' elf4—cottettl-f by the ieWeralick, and dehlataeition by which it has been preuedede--- . We have paused, • Sir, as-long as thenature of the case would admit. No further delay can with pro- priety be alloWed. It is our iminediate duly' to look at our situation,' and to pidyide 'tit,' best remedy for ttie distresses witieh arise from it. Those dis tresses, Sir, I punter out to the notice of the Hotiie, when I gave notice of ray present _moti o n., I . then declared th a t I ‘voni id. stibnite tO the three preliminary , sin,ilartO those ageed 10 ie and I ad.!ed that I would state the outtine of the plan ;liar I would recommend r adoption at the present .perin!. The , question, which undoubtedly ottit:ts, is the judg ment of tile. House upon tte! a t. Teel - louse must, record oh the Jourit,is opiiiion of, the un fo-foliate state of It S I\loje..sty's health', and of inefficiency , to exeeme the ,regal funetions, The secOnZi quesiion will be in the i forin or atiot her re. solution, expressiv e .o f those obligations Oil Toth Houses of Pirltainent w inch arise out of the pecu liar sttuaion'ot the ‘couiltiy. 'far remaining clues - - tion relates t o the form of proceeding by wiateli those obligations are to he discharL'ed. But, Sir, before I enter into a consideration et this .third solution, on a hid, I cunctiVe, _from what I c , I letied the otWer night,. that the'princtniti of-tne e. debate Will hinge; I tee' it necessary, or rather I feel it expedte.et, to submit t o thi s Comini'itec - illy view of the measures width I sh tilliereattei have toptopose to the House in theshape 'o' a Bid, .As to the question of fact, the Resolution which I shall . 1 m i ove s • , "That it is the opinion of this Committee; that his - 3 RsTy is prevented, by - his present tio;l11 to his Parliament, and tr.?in attending to the ho'si liess; and that the personal exercise of tilt. Authority is thereby suspended." " this q iesiion, Sit', I 'apprelle.nd - That no doubt can be entertained. : If I, could suppo st tlt it any du .bt existed ori the' subject, I wonid refer to testimony of fits s bt.t6r e bath the Privy Council and our Own couilinitue. Those w i tio. i haveattended i to fitoe reports, tiitht Lave Sisttlicient , evidence of the melancholy : fact. Inre-, feriing to detect, idence at the,presehl tune, go no fu r tiljer' to s that tie:- f a d t fi e e e tbz . ,pow,l - ,ut . UnquiLstionab:y, tae, Repoli fi0:11 our ovvi) good gro . onsi ice die pi ex_ itt peetation tr< le, y's nitneeee reco% ery, Whit:ll We s ticriVcu It veto 1.1. e Cured ; 'grid f:;c 911 iny is, film recovery, Petiod. ot it cannot be exaCtly,zwti,ei l ,,.e. !, 0)4 with rcosonbe looked tot' at no very a. lie. I. will nut at Present. enter into 4. - Y. ..i.iinatio n of the (cm .tails- .tails of the Report oui ilr +his pi Stlinptiop.--The sectufd Tte,oltition, compiiatice Witt the ptecedent the I tecohinteq, y o it is thy' ',utention t o stunt to the Conitnit tee, is, as folloy.s ' „‘‘ - Ith.t it is, the ol)inion of this Committee, that . it is the right and . duty of the Lords '"nd'lemln.o al, and Coalitions, of V re.a.l3ritatu, how .isseitrbie(l, ai.o lull), fic..•ly representing-all the .etstatespt the, pcu t ,le c 4 tins r,ahn, 0, puivide the itte,ins tife.n;:i.,ti the nersorri,:xert.ise of.tive utiforay, ariSing-troin his 151 a J E,T ,aid indisposition, in suLniiiaaneraS the erogeney of holy appear to require.” . On this second Resolution, Sir, it has certainly been ,intimated to me, - and to-the. House, that, pos. sibiy some Alifferenee'of opnrion alight exit with r res , red to the - words in •which it h‘couched ; , but • neither I, nor the House, have heard that there is disposi!ion to controvert the, principle which it contains—a principle so 'clearly established by pre cedent, so distinctly derived from the. history and pr'inciples of ti,e Constitution, so supperted by. every thing to which we can refer ter cutii ittiotr, and s o impeached by nothirg, that I shall [oilier leave to those who may oppose it to state the nature of their opposition, and restrve to myself the right of m a k, ing-anyfuture obser, at ioLs on thdir arguments, that attempt to originate the _discussion myself. I stilt), conceive, the principle to . be - achnitted until I find it denied. Having thus, Sir, disposed of the two first Resolutions, t come now to the Resolution descrip the of the. form by which the continua nce of t h e ex ecutive authority is to be 'provided. This Resolution I- will read : !. That for tifi§ purpose, and for maintaining entire the Constitutional Autticrity of the'lo;so, it is ,ne&e s sary that the said Lords Sin,►,Jatand ,Temporat, tna Conunons, of Great Britain, and l.ei.indsliOuld determi ne the rne.u4 whereby the'Reyal Aisent rosy be given in Pardament to . such &II as May he intsscei by the tw o H ouses of Varlia. inept, respeaing . the t,;.er,cie. of the pow ers an d 'authoriti es of the Crbwn, in the n.nn; and on the behalf of the K tut: Al. during the continuance or thi s Af as r Y' S prasent , lion.". It:must be @vicient to the Committee, . Sir, that the 'great and leading te.iture of the' mode of pro ceeding described in this resolution is, that it be a proceeding by' Bid." • SOdi is • the, proposition, which I have humbly to iecomunend theadoption of this tide other hand, it has loii.en,sub,-' 'pitted td us, by the Honourable GentieuKu up posite, who fairly and candidly, inti Mated to the thesother night, the view which ,the took of this part of the. subject, • that a prOceeding by wav of Address , v‘ould be„pletterable to a proceeding, by way of Bill, v. hick latter,: those Gentlemen pro posed to consider as uncenstitutional. 'Judging from the statement thus. nmtle by .the Geotleinen opposite, I am induced to conceive that the discus, &ion of •the present • evening niar . be narrowed into, the consideration 'of these, two questions ; :it bei n gs taken for granted that the..iwo Houses of Parlia tiient--.-and this House in particular'--are called en tp provide some ietnedy for the deficiency in the executive poWer, and, the point to be decided being whether it is preferable to do ; hi s by lid!, . or, ,s re- COM mended by the kion:Gentleillen opposite by Address. In order, hovvet i er, that the details of tint, bosness may be better understood, before-I. procted to estimate the comparative valu of. the two advised modes of proceeding,. I shall, io,contormity to toy uotie . e, open generally r&iy intention with respeCt to the' ulterior 'propositions that I meant to b log (Or ward: .Now, Sir, in, the vivw whielf.l rake of the sebjeCt, it appears to me ,that the measure which we ought to adoie should unquestionably be to ap• pc'rint his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Regent,' to adriTnistgrthe afairiefthe ebuittry in the mute, and. e behalf of hi Majesty, / duieng the con tinuer 461 lis Maj&ty's disp4Sit loft. I meat] there fore to propose, that erally all-rik power of Go vernment shell he placee.M the heeds o f hi s R oya l Highness. ,My n ex t p ro position will be, Sit, that duringetheecoutit4tantekze e t -hree-Mejest ye--iisekseosie lion, her Majetity the Queerfshill b c e;;A,ppointe l l the gpaelian of his Majesly'sperson„ awl that to her - Majesty . the entire care •of his Majesty's perSon h,all be - entrusted. It e will Also be extremely tzA introduce in the Bill, due provisions' !foe the notification of , his - Majetty's • recOverve -whenever so happy an event may. take. place ; etrd chalk out the-precise course • by :which his Ma jesty, under seat cireumstancesieshall resume the .11‘teel Autherey• - I mean to propose that the ope= ration a•these. three provisions, the first giving ge - nilal Authority to. his Royal High he Prince of Wales, the Secorid eepositige the 'eta:lmq ofehis Majefey's person in. the: hand.' of lee elajesty Queen, and t he. third describing The riiodein eich ; he‘ROyai Functions shall be- resumed by hiti M in I tte , eveet 'of his rec o v er y,' Sh,lit have n o limit :is signed ie i in point ot time, except the Ctrr ra I 0 of his NI •jesty's" (Lsorder. As, to tn.: Irani- cola's of the- t;'eeneral 'Authority, which f ,mean to piopose.shall be vested in tags Royai Highness the Princi•. , or. Wales, the Bill wed contain eei reit) pro _visions limiting and I - esti - L:1.4,g for a tittle to 4)0 li mited the, use tit sonic of the pourers and prero gatives of the Cro.. ! le Sir, when we eonsider the nature of - the evidence that ,has been given by the Physicians, - boyh to the Privy. Council and to our ()lee Coieenite'e, an.] when we. add-the. know leege which 'we may .olltain from litseory, and, our ,ex peeience on- . forincr occasions, I tiihik we may reasolianiy look to,. no S ery distant p erio d heir as of his Majesty's probable recovery.-- Ail the P.hysicians :have unitorbily. declined stat ing any precise period a. , ;• that in ;which th e y exped his Majesty's recovery,. they uneormly sataine and Confident eipeetatioir ot his Majesty's-recovery, but decline fixing on any period as. that which it:may probably take plate. e How - - ever, it must be observed, that they generally refer evidence to.tlie hisiory.of his eetejesty's for . mer cemplarotse as affording the bee Means of eneee hleieeeltem to judge-of the euurse and progress of his Maje`sty's present; disorder ; when. ►te take itiiA . our cOnsideration e hr addition to the e v id ence of IrWM:rjesty's - Poysiti an e recently examined, the opiejoes of that most experienced medical prate i tionere the Lite Dr. is - expressed in the year 1788, We may perhaps conclude, that six weeks or two months is the shot test H , ried at ( which it is reasanable , to. expect, a complete recovery front -his Majesty's present•melady : that - the or six - moethe 011110,• to '.be' the average period of such air ex pettatitr'; and that twelve or- eighteen monitis is the ektren:!e point of - time to winch - a is likely. his' Majesty's Malady erviyebe -proteleted... Ott this' vieW, of the snhjey, theretine, I conceive that there is no question bei .1 hatehe House ill joke mid their ‘-irt -0- consideration the probability , of les . Majesty's rc coeeryearqo-..very distant per iotte and that they will teliiik if, neeese,ry to precede beetle! Bitl aople secu T city. for his-Majesly's , immediate and complete, re 'turn to Power in that event. The period . wlech, - ou the mOst deliberate that I tem take on the subject, I would lecommend to the adoption of the Hotese,..is; about a twelvemonth from the time at which the Bill may pass both Houses of Parliament. It is my intention, therefore, to recomeheod that in. the Biil-vesting generally - the royal power in his Royal Hiehees the Prince of ; Wales, there b e MU - pa wed' restrictions on certain parts of that power for the period which I hate, mentioned ; eeith the addition of this consideration, - that.whateVer be the period to which Parliament way limit the reetriaionsand qua lifications that may be thought necessary, due care -shall be taken that those restrictions and qualifica tions shall expire at a. period when Parliament shall havebeen sitting for:at least six.weeks, inert - der that if they think it necessary, Parliamentmay reconsider the subject, or if they do not. think it necessary. o reconsider the' subject, the restrictions. and qualifications may expire under the knowledge - and within, the view of Parliament. This Reuse swill, I trust, Sir, agree with me, that for the period which I have mentioned the power of 'granting any rank in the'peereage should be 'suspended ; also that it will be reasonable to declare that all grants of offices and eenSionS (except such as 'are 'necessary for the pub lic service) shad be granted only for the term of the Regency, subjectto his Majesty's pl e a sure on his recovery. I shall propose, that her Majesty the Queen shall have.-the superintendence of the personal esta blishment of his Majesty's household . for 12 mouths, and that after that interval, all the regulations connect edwith that subjea shell expire, unless Parliathent, on a general View of the subject,. may think proper to re-establish some portion Of them, for the purpose of neuntainiug the royal dignity. This, Sir, is the general outline of the: ulterior measure, Which it is My intention to' propose and having, as hoPe, stated it with eutlicieut clearness to-render Myself distinaly intelligible, I beg le'ave to 'teeall the at eention, of the Committee to the question itnitedie ately before us, and to remark, that whatever may be the difference of feeling .or opinion on the' pro iety of admitting'airy restrictions on the'power of the Regent, or . on the preferenee which should be given to One duration of that reitriaionOVer another, the question now before the Committee is not on the propriety or impropriety of adMitting any 're, striaiOni—not outhe limit whether longer or ,therter of that restridion--LbufsiMply on time expediency of adopting one course of prOceeding in hid establish meat o: a Rj:gent in preference to another. In the first place,Sir,l apprehend troll). the expressions I,v Inch were, used the ether night, that one ground of the pbjec (ion to be made to. my praiosition is, that it is un constitutional.. It ,was said .by a Right H'oo. Gent. that it was a measure "derogatory next the liOnour of the Crown, injurious to the principles of the Con stittition, and insulting to the IllostrioaS Personage tehordit chiefly respected." Now I ,contess, Si:-, I do not apprehend hbw the Geuilemen oppeSite built he able to maintain these positions. With regerd to. the assertion that the proceeding by Bill' is uncon.• stitutional, I do not find any such assertion was made, in 1783, how, inuchsoever itevas then ;argued that another, measure, constitution a l I,ikes.vise, eeerle be , , , „ L . MON eXpedlcilt. But ie't , us Qopc- n to the proceeding by till is - Unconstitutional know not how we 'ea:l better deterinitie who it - and what is not censtitueional e thae by a ,pfe. r4neetto our ON'irti proce2dings, and to our cenduei on fOrmerbccasitins- The viliglitened theorist ‘vte deligh:s only in ab‘trataions, ; I leave to I ifi enjo} - went, and shall7COntkit' isi7Selt - with pointing out what is the course that has been recognised by Pat han-n-it in a case precisely similar—a precedent from - .witdrtre-m'iy a r e Ttie, not - by - anettogy attirre; - brit by deaded resemblance in all its parts io the present inst.-nice. lii short, in thevety case be fore. us, :1 her a full review' 't he history of the corm - try of the 'OonStii , otiortaftdr the Most and ure'•delitneratiolt e .ilarli at mrit adopted the coarse - which I now recominend. Let us ecosider; Sir, what our situation is,' and' what 'ard the'dmies -which we ate ealled upon to - perform. It• is true that' the functions 'of the royal authority are inter rupred, hot the Throne is- not vacant. We are cal tdcf upee cot to create a King, but to - preserv'e to an existing Monarch ins undiminished rightA, ,and until -he can' resatne those rights;' to provide the means by winch the royal authority may be duly ekereised. • We shall see the'- importance of this ohservation - When wcyettsider the nature of the precedent to which, rtiay.e aPuded, and thenature of other preeedents which have' been ci t ed. The preeedent of the revoluti, n has been - preddced the'precedent of 1788'.. have alread, observed that the prec e d ent of 17887 is not analogical to the pre sent case, *tint distinctly applicable to it. - There is aoliateriat ditf,renr.e in' toe lONS at the prese n t t i me and at the Ret , olution. Whatever information'we may derive from the precedent of the 'Revolution, -n! refers only to analogy,- an 4. is not clistindly appli citle. In the situa' ion m 'Which we stand we have various , duties to d:scharge. It is of the utmost iiripoi ranee to • piOvide for tt.e security of the Coatitry determining• 'the means of carrying on the royal authority, and it must' not be overlooked, th'it '7S 'fit' the utmost importance to secure td his Majesty' the -restoration of hi - s rights • -find' priVilege - 4 , our leis restoration At 'the i time we, are providing for the one objett; we anist ies-ke care -to provida 'tor tile' other. ..Not only Must We secure'to M. , ,j2sty, on reslo ration to health, the. reStbrattott Of 'his rights and pri4llleges; but we must secure the restoratiOn - ot them 'under all the , ci:'cuarstaticesi in which they are at present posse4Aid.'' In the year 1788, his Majesty was afiliged with Ithe same cAlariiitk hs that , which has now so unhlppily befallen, him.— lit the year 1788; Parlia r ni6oPhad the' Sathe (Fades to disch irge. as Parliament"hav't in:;so to dischn'ige, and' they oi-Cln those dude's in' the way in whiCh 'I propoi.e that they' •sho !Id now be di;- charged .' The coutst of proceedi , g pursued in 1788 ,war instituted in this - House, whence it waSlalten to the other 'Renee, and there 'adripted. It was co . :). cutrently acted upon"by botli'Vou;ies, and it. cannot thettfOre tre dispined that the •satictitio avid authority of both Hou'se'sot Parliament.were given io theine.:l- ures proposed' On that occasion. • -On a retrospec tion at the occurrences of tht.; years 1788 - a'od,l7BD, it Will aepear that a neees,ity was matities:ed for the establishmen4 of :a Reeency. The two Houe;,-s o ParliaMent cous:.-queo fly asset,' bl d, • aed the “rea Seal 1:4.7as put„ to it commission for holding-a Pat went under the dirt:Mon and' by eheaulholity of ,both HonseS.. The crjrnmissitin wa;exeCureci.' rrieufwas held by it, and prneeeded to Stipp!y the de fii.iencrin the exeutiveittithoii!y by a Regency All, which was carried for Ward nearly to its termination. During that, period other extraordinary 'proeeediogs went on : Bills to x considerable number were brimght in here, and in the abet House. 'Ttiejr were proceeded in while the Regency Bill 'was pending; and which it is'most material to remeni ber, were completed ittd . coueluded after the resto ration of his Majesty. Thus, Sir, it appears, that the question at issue was del ded not only by the two Hoiises of Parliament, tbut by the whole Par liament assembled. On' his Mijesty's recoi•ery. he, by his Commissioners, came down to Par liament. - Did 'he revoke or annul their pro ceedings ? Did he disclaim their interference ? Did he declath: that the Great Seal had b'een improperly' used Did averse the two Houtes of abusing Iheir authority? Did, he deny the validity of 'the acts whidh they had p:eised ? No; direelly the contrary. His Majesty, - by his Commissioners, was • pri:sent in the same SesSion, He ptif nuend to the Session, held during his ill ness, but referred distinaljr to the instrutnitnt under which their previotts sittings had been I wish, Sir, to make this part of the subjea as satifAfory to the Conimittee as it appears to me to be demonstra bly conclusive: The two House's of Parliament, atter the recovery of his Majesty, were assembled by , commission ; and in the 44th volume of our_Jour nals page may be found the terms Of the Com mission itself'. They are as follow "His Majestylnot thinking tit 'to be present in his Royal Perkin,, has been pleased •to cause a Corn mission to issue under the Great Seal, authori3ing and commanding .the 'CoMmissioners who were appointed by the former authority:. of Parliament to open this Parliament, to ciclare that the sante shall be twitter held." In the speech which immediately followed were these expressions ' " In obedienrx: to . his Majesty's c om M an d s, an d by the virtue ' o f both Com Missions, we proceed to lay before you'such further accounts as his Majesty judges proper to lay before his Parliament: His Ma jesty, by the blessing of Providence, has happily re covered from his indisposition, and being enabled 'to attend to publiC affairs, commands us to convey to you his warm acknowledgments of thy additional proofs' which you have shown of affeetionate attachment to his person, and of zealous concern for the honour of the Crown, and the security of the Kingdom." ' Now, Sir, let the Commirtee'consider the nature 'of the - precedent of 1788, and the manner in which the Parharrfent acted on that occasion.--If there is any thing in the arguthent that the measure which I am about ,to propose is 1p it necessa rily follows that the aet of o; ening the Parliament . 1788 was illegal,'and that the lust step which his Majesty ought to have taken on his recovery upon That occosion was' to call a Parliainent sub stantively: himself. Instead of tali;, however, we fritd that theforoier proceolings of the 'Parliament, whicheaccording-to the doctrine of the Hon. Gen tleman opt•nsite, unconstitutional; recogois,d as-wait:tin thteCoroanissioners' speech; in /alien a distiect teferetice'w!is 'made to thew. It • `the former proceedings of that Raliamerat had ti t uouxistitutional, is it vi couctiued that his, jesty would have .recognised or acted upon the; , The Gentlem en opposiie may perhap s sa y, " becdusehis Majesty continued to be adviied by 1 : 0 same Ministers who had recommeaded the fsifii l proceeding's in ParliaMent."—l now, perceite, the strong point of the Gentlenfen opposite'. I I°, touched the key op 'which all the chords-of tr feelings . vibrate. I row find what I could -nut P 6 ' , sibly contemplatebeforeL—in what my argument deemed unsound.. It, seeir.s that tile Gentlemen ° . posite are disposed to contend, o:at-his Majesty 'tinned to be a,!vised by the ',same .servirits-aS l ',. proposed the Regency. Bill to Parliameot in 17 8 ! and therefore, his recognition of the, validity of ib acts of that Paßiainent atioids no ground for they' sertion that those pro&edingS were constitution : Let those Gentlemen, hots ever, consider, _that thartime there was no want of ability, of actiteto and of .disposi!ion. in this House, to urge any OW that could be urged against any Minister. Ai'd the House,be informed by their Jour oats, that It speech from the Th rone , so adviscd by the blinist! l who had,recommentled the former unconstitution' measures (as - they w er e ter me d) , was echoed by 11 s address_ from this House, :which was.carried contradicente. It may be said, and it is a feeli. which I have n o d ou b t t h at t h e Gentlemen oppoili4 will very r e adily app l aud, that there tuigtit Have bec a an inclination on the part, of the Hon: at !hat p o ' riod to forbear from any measure ihat might inte'' rtipt the.hartnony that had beep just re-..eiablisited' and therefore that they'nlight have o.isSed over anY thing merely awkward and unpleasant. But sure those whowished to supp ort the - pail ithic c h ar acter of their political friends of period, will not 40 ; that an act of so grave a nature, one - to Which the, applied thastrong term unconstitutional, wo.ld ti °' ben allowed to pass uncerisured' out or Loorp,,inetit' rind, if this argument of the Gentlemen oppo6'' e I;cre to - stufice tor that Sessien,;‘,ihai would 1 14 , say to the total silence that had been Oburved 4)1 ; _the subjeCt in alj su ccee d ing . Sessions ' ? I ‘0,1"0. that in; the joy of congratulaturg his Majesty on to i recov-ty;;the t attention of th e H ouse might tor that day -be abs - ,Jlb , ed. But th e r e were following days. .not Ott the next day, yet at no great distaiice of :lift sofa rnbcon of cons,quence might have been macte . 4 Sonaerecord.of disavowal m i ght have been entero' on'. the .tournals. Some al(ega!tott of unprovri' • ety might have been , endeavoured tch tae e,,tablis ll ;. Li by proof... But no : the whole ,session was IWO. without any such'. occurrence. Ail the Acts' et Parliament during that SessiOn, by which ptiVs o nerd public property were disposed of to an' for mense aitiount,'Werelteld legal. Is it' possible t°, Ruppose, that if every one halt not been convinced that this wa s a legal, an etliclent,and a constitai tutional. Session of Parli;lititerit, that h e wou:' not have taken sOtne step 'by Address, by Ite,oio' iiOns; Or otherwise,' to-.express his opinion ? Tiii s was a transadion, too, which, took place op‘A'ait l9 of 20 yeJrs ago; since which period tot:re nave beel'' sudt:,essive Paihainenis and successive ficlantlisto' twos.- There have been occasions an` wh;cll di d attention of Pad : raiment - and. the Public iris beeti wily directerlto a repetition'of -the cucutnstanciri , to which,the. transattions.of 1788 orgiL,,:tcd ; , • yet, With all these provoea rives to k, jot • single; instance ha s oceurr,d 01 tie: Lt at accusation. I-trust, therefore, Sir, tin:t the IllitteCt will be a opinion', take a stro.;g, ai d firm ground in fixing toy proceeding on this prece _dent—a precedent esiablished after a profound ill - of our History and our Consitt,lOU. Ta argue the ore;inal , case would he a wa,te of tune- It would obscure rather than enFghten. I rest 111 a tneeits of my proposed measure 4011 the ' w loch receiv ed the st.trinp and sand:ono:- every bl'aorli of the Legislative Authority. 'lf lam right, Sir, it ) the view which I have hitherto taken of (he S , -k" )60, we come cow to Considtr wl.e;her . ; the •triod tecornmended by the Gentlertien oppos%L; (eousti tutional as well as mine) is more constitutional than mine or more expedient. First I cohterid; that Parliament wilt think in a case of this Where we are placed in such a situation that wind We have to do is little less titan to provide a'tt:ru porary successor to the Crcwn—l contend, Sir, iliac; to such a case Parliament will be de - strolls of adopt - . ink some certain and defined measure. 'There is'. not arty thing tnoie 'generally to be lan.ented, N or is, ;here any thing whi'cli the Constitution 'more' sejti cushy avoids, than the creatio n of any unce'! tartl y with regard th the' succession to Royal : POWiT• t, therefore, I find that the course Which Poriii.l ment has already adopted on a similar occasion is unexceptionable in' other respeets, I am bot.tel every vicar of the subiedt to adhere to it; not be 'cause if all were to be done again, something - rem, might not he 'adopted ; but because; hiving been once done, it is advisable to abide by the - pft , c,dettr- This I contend to be a true view of the subjki, %t'it ll ", out a comparative examination of the two proposed . : courses. And what , :bject ion is-there to the tor.io_.;e' - which I propose, which does not equally extst. the couise - proposed by the Gentlemen opposite Are there not in fact many objections to the'ircburSe'. which do not exist to mine ? I have heard it'argued , on a former occasion, that an asirumption of Legt : - 40 live power, by' the two Houses of Parliatn6ni; within the meaning of the' statute of Charles ff-: which made it a premunire for any one to assault such power. But this argument is as hostile "to 3. • proceeding,by Address as - to a - proCe&ling by a Bill. (Ao, no• I from the Opposition .&nches)--L e i : I hose who think this a false statement, consider the s-eb jeat a little. I maintain that 'the effect of priiceed , ing by Addtess would be to legislate. The Gentle men oppoci'e prbposedio address his Royal' High ness the "Pi ince - of Wales: Tolbrcarne King ? No; to become Regent. :-What ; is a' Regent ? Do the Geitlemen•oppOsite know ? Does the law know &it were it particularly established what power a - Regent should have, and what power he Should not ,•, have, if the Iwo Houses of Parliament were to saY to any individual, however. near the Throne, 311 ' 1 however de;erving the Terone, ste'e into Throne, tvoultt not ilhri an act of legisla:oie ? it what i s ? ...„ i,(1,t1:(21" Mott, 01. V I ar t Y and.vinig it to; ai.o:lß , r of ti.at t, C.oiEee eeot and 11. s rights aed siricflY i • what ‘vou'd t.•. has Otter his appolioroc:: , I. aOprehendtrJe to:,ether of hi, 2..iajt -, q 6 ParilanY:f.t. HoW V'o.;ilC: LC! lc ibex. IYotik; C. put Le.by .aut;no ;:idtvidual _4l :it w app: be a their they IIeSS agqs. far to b; tietn; triti: al cal; Unba the t of ac tress germ SUCK been and drive the r at wl fore, from may parts Testrc tousii fermi R me; Nvoul4 /bade circul of tilt lber Throi a nevi leas s 'olle is `let i ury at ),'ice,: ~~ tII~~~~ ~~~i ape! 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